[Evergreen-governance-l] Proposed New Governance Changes

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Another clarification:  (a)     A seventy-five percent (75%) vote of all the
Members can override an Oversight Board decision.


Does that mean all registered members or all voting members?


Lori
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Corridan, Jim (ICPR) <jcorridan at icpr.in.gov
> wrote:

>  Governance Group:
>
> Attached is a revision of the Rules of Governance.  The revisions reflect
> comments from the two most recent meetings and an attempt to have the
> Foundation serve as the single unified organization for Evergreen.  In
> addition to some minor language clean up, the major changes to this version
> of the Rules of Governance are:
>
>
>    - Clarification that one of the Foundation’s purposes is to serve as
>    the community’s user’s group
>    - A dues structure has been added.  The dues are low enough ($10 for
>    individuals and $100 for institutions) that contributors should not balk at
>    having to pay to support the foundation, whether that contributor is a board
>    member, developer, committee member, library, etc.
>    - A Code Committing Committee has been added in recognition of the
>    comments made by the Software Conservancy (about Equinox) and various
>    governance committee members in recent meetings, so that the Foundation will
>    have some input with regard to Evergreen code
>    - Membership is open to anyone who wants to join and is willing to pay
>    the membership fee.
>    - Eligibility criteria for board membership now includes the language
>    that was originally required for Evergreen Foundation Membership.
>
>
> Probably by December we need to come to some sort of agreement so that we
> have an authoritative board with an established Chairperson who will have
> the authority to sign the agreement with SFC on behalf of the Foundation,
> and also so there is time to get the committees up and running in
> preparation for the elections at the annual meeting, among other things.
> Let’s keep in mind that the board (both the Initial Board and regular
> Oversight Board) does have the power to modify the Rules of Governance in
> the immediate and long term future if something isn’t working.
>
> Jim
>
>
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